It’s the final week to catch the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s “SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial” exhibition, which features work produced by 38 faculty members who completed a sabbatical or a similar paid leave during the last three academic years. Not only does this show represent the breadth of ideas and creative practices […]
Tag: Jean-Luc Godard
Posted inMusic
Catherine Ringer keeps Les Rita Mitsouko’s music alive
Catherine Ringer’s famous duo, Les Rita Mitsouko, are no more—but she performed their punky, jazzy synth-pop songs for a recent live release.
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Movie Tuesday: Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!
In honor of the Reader’s Pets issue, here are five films with plenty of cinematic canine charisma.
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Movie Tuesday: The director as public intellectual
Five masterpieces from filmmakers whose work has pushed the cultural envelope
Posted inFilm
The Image Book takes shape as you watch it
Jean-Luc Godard’s latest is a montage of images with the weight of an epic poem.
Posted inFilm
In Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard contemplates the transition from celluloid to video
Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it’s having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
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Lesbian revolutionaries smash sexual taboos to undermine the patriarchy in Bruce LaBruce’s The Misandrists
Luckily for the patriarchy, their plan for world domination involves making porn movies.
Posted inBlogs
Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck
FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
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An interview with Jon Moritsugu, director of Mod Fuck Explosion
The veteran underground filmmaker reflects on his four-decade career.
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Five must-see films about film
Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.
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Doc Films showcases the lesser-known work of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki
A new nine-week, 13-film series features a number of movies that rarely screen outside of Japan.
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Revisit the glory days of radical chic with Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise and Le Gai Savoir
Two films from a transformative period in the director’s career screen this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The still-relevant satire Little Murders is the best movie in town this week
Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter revival of Alan Arkin’s 1971 film adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s stage play.
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Jean-Luc Godard’s A Married Woman is back and as relevant as ever
The director’s 1964 masterpiece plays all week in a new digital restoration.